Steph

I agree foreign to the U.S.  

I do love the ones which look really close to something which could be from the U.S. though ... and a nice big size.  

I think Alley on the right.  

My first thought was Vitro on the bottom but I could see possibly Akro.  

Maybe Champion or Alley on the left.

For the top I just go with "transparent swirl".   

1"?

Sweeeeet

Thank you both. 

I've never thought I would never have another again.

We still have two of course, but I don't think it's possible for us to be without a cat.  

I will say not another kitten.  Punkin has made me think I could be good at taking care of another special needs cat, but an older one.    Punkin and Bear were the last kittens for me.  

We lost Punkin last night.   We never found for sure what was causing his weight loss but the vet's final thoughts were that he was his liver, and was only a matter of time.   

Such a sweet spirit.   





 

Since it's Chuck and it's on this forum, I guess I should head over to a Heaton thread first.

Someone had posted pictures  on Facebook of some marbles that I had hoped could possibly be the mysterious Du-Lites.  That's what prompted this thread.  Someone else has now posted similar ... or maybe it's the same person posting a second time.    

Here's the new post -- the group is set to private so that means you need to be a member pf the group to see it:

Vitro Marbles : Anyone have any info on this box | Facebook



Here's a screenshot.  So this is what I had been hoping were Du-Lites.

#2 is gorgeous!  (I agree Master.) 

I got a small group of marbles for nostalgic reasons.  They were modern.  Then I was showing them to an antique dealer acquaintance and she said those weren't ones that people were interested in.  

That hurt my feelings a little and made me try to learn which ones were the good ones.  



My nostalgia was largely inspired by a bunch of clearies from super peewee to boulder size which Santa put in my stocking in 1976.     I also have memories of all-reds I would have gotten new in the 1960's and bumblebees that I would have seen when they were nearly new.   So that's why I decided to get "just a few" marbles.

Following. 

Green might get you started along the way to having a Kato, but I don't know if it goes far enough.

Thanks, Ron.  I thought about thinking about one of the long-gone marble makers.  

Then I decided the colors looked way too new so I didn't let my mind go further back than a later-era Champ.



But I still have reservations since Gladys has so many of them together.   Any thoughts about that?  

Gladys, did any other marbles come with those?

Having that many together sent me to the Billes-en-tete page to see if I would recognize the color combo.  I did not see a match. 

So, possibly Champion.

Or maybe one of the modern Asians which resemble Vacors?  


Or still potentially Vacor.

Or Jabo.

One of my first thoughts was actually Mid-Atlantic.  But I don't think the brown works for that. 

We've have a few marble run designers spend some time at the forum.  We started this subforum for them: 

Marble Runs & Marble Games - Marble Connection

 

Possibly the most intricate -- definitely the most famous -- was Jelle Bakker.  Some of his Youtube videos went viral.   They took off when he had a very professional sounding announcer do play-by-play for some of his marble races.   But his videos have disappeared from the two threads that I peeked at just now.   That's odd.   He still has a Youtube channel.  With over a million subscribers.

Jelle's Marble Runs - YouTube

 

This young man's father has shared some of what he and his boy have done together:

SUPERDASH MARBLES - YouTube




So both of those feature races, rather than highly technical machines, but Jelle has a wide variety of runs.   I just don't have a good link right now for his more technical ones.  

I'm definitely being unfair to just single those two out.   I need to revisit some of our other marble run makers' threads.

Welcome.  I'm getting caught up with some older posts after slacking for awhile.   I like your modern Marble King cat's eyes.

I confidently say Modern Marble Kings.  

I think with white instead of green it's a less common variation.   

Nice to have another JABO afficionado.    

7 hours ago, Steph said:

Bear and Punkin get along okay. She batted him once or twice early on. 
 

Well, that was a pretty bad typo.  Bibi batted Punkin some weeks ago.  19.2 pound Bibi versus teeny tiny Punkin.

Punkin and Bear attack each other a lot but Bear's paws don't carry the wallop that Bibi's can.



Now though we feel pretty safe with Bibi and Punkin near each other. 

Master, Pelt and ????   I'll guess Champion.  

2 minutes ago, William said:

Wow, I remember a late snowfall here in June shortly after I moved here in the mid 90's!

The print may be hard to read on that, but the town was actually in a heat wave that July.  Then workmen uncovered a buried snowbank from the spring.   And winter fun ensued.  

Two Rivers, Wisconsin has  Ethnic Fest, Apple Fest, Kites over Lake Michigan, many more.   

One interesting one is Snow Fest.  In July.   Celebrating this fun find from 1936. 


 

Little ones working on their new clubhouse ....

A sobering remembrance.   

Our friend left this morning.

It was actually pretty cool.  He makes his cats step outside their comfort zone in a way I wouldn't do to my cats but all of our cats benefited from it.  Within two days his two and our two new ones were spending a lot of time in the same areas.  Not exactly friends but good socialization.  

Our touchy basement cat even got some interaction.  

The kittens explored the basement more.  

Back when Bear was in a tent to keep her separate because she was taking a long time to recover from being spayed (did I mention that?), the big cat Bibi got aggressive through her threw the mesh tent walls and their was a pooping accident because Bear was so scared and couldn't escape.  But now that Bear is out of the tent, she's able to run away, and so though there is still some aggression it doesn't bother me.  It's good exercise for Bibi.  Bibi needs the exercise.  She gained six pounds last year though she hardly eats anything.

Bear and Punkin get along okay. She batted him once or twice early on.  And he's still very tiny.  He's even lost a couple of ounces from his max, which I'm paying close attention to.   He's 2 lb 9 oz, down from 2 lb 11 oz.  But the vet office said it might just be from how incredibly active he is.  He runs everywhere on his mighty hind legs and his floppy little front legs.  ""

The kittens are almost 5 months and Bear weighs 5 pounds.  



Uhhhh ... I'm rambling.  I should edit.  But I won't.   


Sooooo ... basically things are good.  



 

I'll give a very rough guess of 1950.

The white in the first view has a look that could be older, but all together I'm leaning Jabo.